It Ends (2025)

A routine drive becomes an existential nightmare in Alexander Ullom’s eerie, darkly funny It Ends, a minimalist genre puzzle about four recent college graduates who find themselves trapped on a forest road that appears to stretch into infinity. As mile follows impossible mile and the ordinary laws of time, hunger, and physics begin to break down, the friends attempt to impose reason and routine upon a predicament that increasingly resists explanation. Working from an ingeniously simple premise, Ullom turns the confines of a car and an apparently endless ribbon of asphalt into a liminal space where youthful banter gradually gives way to questions of hope, acceptance, friendship, and the human need to believe that every journey must have a destination. Alternately funny, unnerving, and unexpectedly poignant, It Ends finds cosmic horror not at the edge of the universe, but somewhere farther down the road.